I've always gravitated towards songwriting that happens easily and spontaneously, because those have always been my best songs.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Songwriting is something that's very daunting until you have your first successful song, I think.
I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.
The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.
When I get all focused on songwriting, I get into all the marketing and promotion that we do to make it happen. Then the right song comes along and blows it all out of the water. The right song will do it for you every time.
My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.
Songwriting's never been a natural art for me; it's always been a bit of a struggle.
I found songwriting really hard at first, but after a while it was actually very easy.
I knew that collaborating on songwriting would be difficult for a lot of people, because I was known very much, for my independence and the fact that I wrote these quirky songs that were not typical structure, not typical sound - you know, really original stuff.
Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.
Songwriting is hard - it's so easy to fall into the same traps. It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.